Street marker



June 24, 1930.

J. v. JANIN 1,766,518

STREET MARKER Filed Nov. 14, 192"! lllllllllllllIllllllllllll PatentedJune 24, 1930 UNITED STATES QFFICE JOHN V. JANIN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTONSTREET MARKER Application filed November 14, 182?. Eierial No. 232,968.

The invention is a sign comprising two In the design shown the plate 1is made angularly disposed plates in which each of as shown in Figure lwith the name of the the plates designates, first the intersectingintersecting street as indicated by the word street and also the streetupon which the First at the top oi the plate as indicated by 5 bs ver iituated, the numeral 1 and with a double end arrow 55 The object of theinvention is to provide 5 interwoven with the word so that it will asign for street intersections from which apparent that F i 'st Streetwould extend the observer may readily determine the names in bothdirections i'roni the intersection as of both the streets of theintersection at 2. indicated by the arrow. Below the word l First is thewordBlocks with the number Another object of the invention is toprostore it as indicated by the numeral 6 vide a street marking signfrom which one representing the length of the street by the may readilydetermine his location upon number of blocks. The word Block is alsoboth streets. placed on the other side of the plate with 15 A furtherobject of the invention is to the numeral before it as indicated by theprovide a street marking sign which may numeral 7 which indicates thenumber of readily be installed in a conspicuous locablocks from the endof the street. Below tion and readily read. these words is a space 8 inwhich the name of And a still further object of the invention the streetupon which the observer is situated 20 is to provide a street markingsign which is is placed in large letters as indicated by the of a simpleand economical construction. numeral 9 and at the lower side of thespace 8 lVith these ends in view the invention eni is an arrow head 10pointing directly clownbodies a sign comprising two rightangularly wardas shown. Below the space 8 are other disposed plates, and suitablestraps for atrepresentations of the word Block as indi- 25 taching theplates to a post or other object. cated by the numerals 11 and 152, oneof which Each of the plates is provided with the name will represent thelength of the street by of both of the intersecting streets, the lengthblocks and the other the number of the block of the streets and thenumber of blocks from from the beginning of the street. It is unthebeginning of the streets to the intersec derstood that the wordingdescribed above 30 tion may be placed on both sides of the plate. Otherfeatures and advantages of the in- On the angularly disposed plate asinvention will be seen from the following decheated by the numeral 2 isa similar rcpscription taken in connection with the draw- 'rcsentationof the names of the streets with h3g3 the names reversed so that thename of the i 35 Figure l is a view showing one of the intersectingstreet will be at the'top and plates. the name 01 the street upon whichyou are,

Figure 2 is a View showing the sign as at the bottom. it would appearwhen attached to a post. 'ihe strap 3 may be attached to the plateFigure 3 is a view showing the means oi as shown in Figures 2 and 3. Thestrap 40 attaching the sign to a post. may extend across the plate inthe space Figure 4 is a View showing an alternate between the wordsFirst and Marion means for attaching the sign to a post. with the wordsBlocks and their correspond- Figure 5 is a view showing a means of ingnumbers on the straps. The supporting attaching the signs to a corner ofa build strap 3 may be made as shown in Figure 3 I 45 ing. and attachedto a continuous belt 13 6X- In the drawings the device is shown as ittending around a post by rivets 14: with the u c be made wherein numeral1 indicates inner ends of the ilates held to the straw b no 1 r ne ofthe )lates numeral 2 the other )iate bolts 15 and he outer ends providedwith O l 7 1 I L i 11( numeral 8 the strap bv which the Jlates notches16 so that the enus of the stra may 1 i u 5 are attached to an object.be bent around and pass thorugh the notches m0 to hold the plates. Theends of the strap 13 may be flanged and held by a bolt 17 as shown. Thestrap 3 may also be made as shown in Figure 4 with the ends bent arounda post and flanged so that they may be held by a bolt 18. In the designshown in Figure 4 the ends of the straps may extend outward as indicatedby the numeral 19 so that they may readily be attached to a corner of abuilding.

It will be understood that changes may be made in the constructionwithout departing from the spirit of the invention. One of the changesmay be in the design of the plate or the arrangement of the wordingthereon. Anther may be in the omission of the word Block with itscorresponding numerals and still another may be in the use of othermeans for supporting the plates.

The construction will be readily understood from the foregoingdescription. To use the sign it may be attached to a post- With theplates extending outward as shown in Figure 2 or attached to the cornerof a building or any other suitable object and it will be observed thatthe wording on the plates can be very easily seen so that one mayinstantly determine the names of both the streets at an intersection andthe number of blocks from the end of the street.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a street marking sign, two plates positioned at right angles to eachother, straps extending continuously through the central portions of theplates, and means for at taching the plates to an object through thestraps, both of the said plates having the names of the intersectingstreets on both sides thereof with the name of the cross street in theupper position and provided with arrows pointing in both directions, thename of the street facing the sign in the lower position and with anarrow pointing downward, and in combination with the names of both thestreets the number of blocks in the street, and also the number ofhloeksfrom one end of the street.

JOHN V. J ANIN

